Donewiz (2022)
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1 – Death in, Death out
2 – Fall, fall again
3 – A vacuum
4 – So pure
5 – And in the end
6 – The sea devours
7 – My soul in Dunwich
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“Donewiz” is the debut album by Post-Punk / Darkwave duo GRIEVING SEA.
The project marks the first musical collaboration between Void (Feed Them Death,
Pseudodoxia) and Giorgio Barroccu (Derhead), both co-owners of Brucia Records, and it
represents a further step in the label’s new direction of pursuing uncanny, unsettling and
unusual sounds away from the boundaries of extreme metal.
Grieving Sea created a purposely unpolished and low-fi blending of disparate genres such
as Post-Punk, Noise Rock and Darkwave, with the aim of conveying a profound sense of
calamity.
“Donewiz” was the medieval name of Dunwich: once a busy port situated along the
Suffolk coast, now a ghost town that has gradually disappeared under the sea since the
year 1286 due to numerous storms and coastal erosion.
Evoking the lament of all the lives being washed away and the bells of the churches now
tolling from beneath the sea, the clean and simple guitar work is entwined and enriched
with subtly noisier frequencies and accompanied throughout the album by mournful piano
chords and other ominous layers of sound.
Similarly to the music, the vocals also seem to evoke a cry for something that we have all
lost, mimicking the sad and poignant litany of the sea eroding the coast, swallowing our
lives under its waves.
The album also features the magnificently nuanced cello of Sarah Townley from The Sun
and The Mirror in one song, and danish avant garde musician and multi-instrumentalist
artist Trine Paaschburg (Mouth Wound) collaborating on one heartbreakingly painful track.
Music by Grieving Sea
Lyrics by Void
Second voice and extra noise in track 4: Trine
Paaschburg (Mouth Wound)
Cello in track 5: Sarah Townley (The Sun and
The Mirror)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Giorgio
Barroccu for Evokaos (Brucia Records)
Artwork and artistic direction by Evokaos
(Brucia Records)